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The Federal Executive Council on Thursday approved N4.6billion for the construction of seven model schools to be located in the six geopolitical zones of the country. READ ALSO: History of building codes in Nigeria The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the Council meeting which ...

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has engaged stakeholders in Kaduna on proper building measures to avert further building collapse. This is as a result of the recent cases of building collapse being witnessed in the country. Speaking at the sensitization programme organised by SON in collaboration with Leading Ideas International Limited, the Director-General, SON, Osita Aboloma assured Nigerians that ...

The Edo Inland Container Depot has the capacity to create more than 15, 000 direct jobs within the first three years of its operations. Mr. Charles Akhigbe, the Managing Director, Atlantique Marine, and Engineering Services (AMES), operators of the Depot said this in an interview in Abuja. He said that the facility had been completed and was awaiting commissioning of ...

An Abuja-based widow, Aisha Abubakar, has raised an alarm over the alleged invasion of her property by EFCC. The property is located at Plots 2070 and 2071, Cadastral Zone AO2, Wuse Zone 3, near Tamara Guest Inn, by the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC). Abubakar, who is also the managing director/chief executive officer, Sam’s Engineering Limited, told newsmen ...

Minister for Works, Housing and Power Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Tuesday dismissed insinuations that Nigeria has twenty million housing deficit. He conceded that Nigeria has housing challenges, but added that housing challenges are universal phenomenal. The minister told reporters in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital at the end of a capacity building workshop for Federal Controllers of lands and housing in ...

Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State has promised to complete the ongoing construction of the small hydroelectric power project initiated by his predecessor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola located at Ikeji Ile soon for the use of the two major towns: Ikeji Ile & Ipetu Ijesa in Oriade local government area of the state. The leader of the government delegated to the ...

Another Ibadan building collapse: Eight people escaped death on Tuesday when a building collapsed at a construction site in Oyo State. The incident occurred on Eleyele Road beside the Polo Ground in Ibadan, the state capital. Although no death was recorded, some construction workers at the site were trapped under the rubble. Emergency workers were said to have rushed to ...

LAGOS – A legal practitioner, Kole Bello who is standing trial for allegedly selling a dead woman’s property with forged documents has closed his defence before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the State High Court, Ikeja. The Lagos State Government had arraigned the lawyer, Bello before the court alongside Chukwu Victor, Friday Palmer, and Osumah Terry sometimes in October 2017, on ...

The Police at Ikoyi Division, Ikoyi, Lagos have arrested a 39-year old robbery suspect, Victor Emuobi for allegedly scaling the fence into a compound at 12, MacPherson Avenue, Ikoyi, armed with two kitchen Knives at midnight to rob a resident, Tajudeen Solebo of properties valued N14,625,000. A Police source alleged that the incident occurred when the suspect allegedly scaled the ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), is alarmed at the rate owners of multi-billion naira housing estates in Abuja abandon their property the moment the Commission initiates investigation into their ownership status. Chairman of the ICPC, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, who made the disclosure in Abuja on Monday, said the development has become a great worry to ...